Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have never before written a letter to an editor but I feel compelled to do so as I listen to Mr. Willkie speak of "unity" on the radio...
...AMERICAN OF IRISH DESCENT I DEPLORE THE LACK OF LOGIC AND REALISM DISPLAYED IN THE LETTER OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE IRISH MINISTER TO THE U. S. (TIME, DEC. 2). THAT IRISH PORTS WOULD BE USEFUL TO GERMANY IS SELF-EVIDENT TO AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE AND IF MR. BRENNAN SUPPOSES EIRE'S POLICY OF NEUTRALITY WILL PREVENT NAZIS OCCUPYING IT WHEN AND IF POSSIBLE HE HAS QUICKLY FORGOTTEN DENMARK, NORWAY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM. CERTAINLY GERMANY WOULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDING IRISH PORTS ON GROUND OF USEFULNESS BUT WHEN HAS GERMANY EVER FELT NEED FOR JUSTIFYING HER GRABS EXCEPT WITH TONGUE...
Reader Walter Richert in a letter to TIME, Nov. 18, satirized the suggestion made by Mrs. Foster in the Oct. 28 issue, that every German should be sterilized. Among others, he mentioned sardonically such men as Einstein and his Relativity Theory and Ehrlich and his ''Magic Bullet." For Reader Richert's edification, Einstein and Ehrlich and other great Jews are not considered Germans according to Nazi standards. They are "non-Aryan" and possess inferior blood. Their names should nob be mentioned in Nazi circles except for shame and degradation and their achievements are meaningless because they...
Hocking's letter condemned "giving a blanket endorsement to the war aims of Great Britain before it is possible to know what in the concrete they will be," and urged that the interests of this nation will best be served by an "Independent view of what things we desire to support, and what things we are willing to fight...
Instead, he concluded, we must devote ourselves to the tack of "studying the difficult conditions for an enduring world-peace, and securing the incorporation of such conditions in a declared national policy." The letter will appear today in newspapers throughout the country...